Rode my Bike E recumbent for the firt time this year..U know what to do

[ikojo]

Ask away...

Beautiful fall day in St Louis...

I so enjoyed being on the Bike E...can't help but smile when I am on my Bike E...too bad they went out of business





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[LightTheMatch]

1. Why do you like Recumbents?

I've looked at them a little, but i'm very happy with my Trek 7500fx!

[ikojo]

2. Recumbents are more comfortable especially in

the tushy area. I am female and regular bike seats are not that comfortable if you know what I mean...

I also like the back support that the recumbent affords.

Thanks for asking!

Do you have a Trek? They had a recumbent out a couple of years ago. I don't know if they still produce one.

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[LightTheMatch]

5. Yep, I've got Trek...

I started out with a GT palomar, but it was stolen near the UT campus. I upgraded to the 7500fx about a year and a half ago, and I really like it. Lately, though, I've been getting the urge to get a real road bike, because I keep getting passed -- going just about as fast as the gearset on this bike will go :)

There are a LOT of people in Austin with recumbents. They all seem to be huge fans of them, too.

[ikojo]

7. I've only been to Houston Texas so I don't know anything

about the geography of Texas...is Austin pretty flat? In my opinion 'bents are better on the flatlands. I grew up in Central Illinois where it is VERY flat. It can be hilly here in St Louis and I can get up the hills but it's not easy (not easy for me on an upright either).

I have had a bike stolen before too and it was chained up. They basically took it apart. Odd that no one saw them. I live near a private university and I suspect that it was someone moving out of the building since it happened at the end of the spring semester or someone who KNEW that students were moving and that it would not look odd to be schlepping a bike out of an apartment building.

IF I was ever forced to live in Texas I think I would have to live in Austin because I have heard so many good things about it. Seems to be a bastion in a sea of stupidity. Odd that Dell computers is based in the area.


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[scarlet_owl]

3. I don't know anything about bikes,

but I am a St. Louis native. I sure do miss it there, especially in autumn.

[ikojo]

4. Fall in Missouri is absolutely beautiful..

with the leaves changing colors and the nice cool nights. Warm during the day but not oppressively so and very cool at night. Perfect. Now if only Kit Bond and James (no) Talent were not the Senators from Missouri it would be better.

I am not originally from St Louis, I grew up in Illinois, but hey as conservative as it can be around here it is FAR BETTER than where I grew up!

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[scarlet_owl]

6. Born in MO, ended up in IL

I did grow up near a bike store. It is (was) near the Botanical Garden. I do miss all those sycamore trees. Sigh.

[ikojo]

8. I think I know which bike store you are talking about

It's near Arsenal and Kingshighway, I think. It's still open and used by a lot of my biking buddies who live in the city. I go to Big Shark in U City.

On the last Friday of every month a group meets at Kiener Plaza to ride through the city. This is done to bring attention to using bikes as transportation and not only exercising.



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[scarlet_owl]

9. That is terrific!

When we move in May, Mr. scarlet_owl and I are buying bikes. We can't have them now because there is no room for them in our apartment and they would get stolen if we left them outside. I think it will be easier for us to get around here in Champaign-Urbana than St. Louis. It is much flatter here and the town is smaller.

[ikojo]

10. Oh yeah Illinois is FAR flatter than Missouri

When I go visit my siblings in Springfield I laugh at what they consider a hill...I tell them that they would not make it in St Louis because there are serious hills that's for sure.

I have a friend who lives near Franklin County and it is VERY hilly down that way. Pretty but hilly, especially in Desoto.

If the hill is too steep the bike and I take a walk up the hill together. I do try to bike up the hill as far as I can but if it gets too difficult I walk it. It's walk the bike up the hill or have a coronary! Oy!

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[scarlet_owl]

12. I lived for a while on Hoffmeister St. in Lemay

and that is where I first learned to ride a bike. Hoffmeister is one big hill after another. My dad would take us to the St. Andrew's and we would ride up and down the basin-shaped schoolyard. Going up the hills sucks, but riding down is lots of fun.

[ikojo]

14. Going down hills on a recumbent is even

more fun and you go down them much faster! I feel like a little kid again when I am going DOWN the hills!

Yippeee!

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[prolesunited]

11. Cool looking bike!

Why for the first time? What did you do over the summer?

[ikojo]

13. In St Louis the summer really is not for riding bikes

especially if one is not a regular rider. I had stopped riding my bike when I got a job that required me to take the bus. The commute is too far and along dangerous high traffic roads for me to ride my bike to work.

It is just too hot and humid here, and the air quality too poor, for me to ride in the summer. I *think* summer is over so I decided to air up the tires and get back on the bike. I'll ride it now until it gets warm again next year and then I'll take a break again.



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[prolesunited]

15. I was down your way in August

I rode the Katy Trail, St. Charles to Sedalia. Since I had my car it wasn't contiguous, but I hit most of it. Luckily, I picked a week that was unseasonably cool. It was beautiful. Have you ever done it?

[ikojo]

16. I've done just a bit of Katy Trail on foot.

I don't have a car to schlep my bike to the trail so I have not ridden it. I have done the Riverfront Trail along the Mississippi
River in the City. It was OK but scary. It's pretty desolate. As I was riding it I was thinking how easy it would be for someone to be murdered up that way and no one would know it for a long, long time. Needless to say it spooked me and I've not done it since (that was April 2001 right after it opened up).

I THINK they are supposed to be connecting the Katy Trail to the Riverfront Trail and if that happens then I might try it.

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